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Monday, September 23, 2019

50 years ago: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid released

Buch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Released: September 23, 1969

Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox

Genre: Western

Box Office (numbers in millions):

Domestic: 102.31 Worldwide: ?

Adjusted for Inflation:

Domestic: 692.24 Worldwide: 1219.4

Directing: George Roy Hill

Screenwriting: William Goldman

Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin

Review:

“One of the most-popular, appealing, beguilingly star-driven, tragi-comedy Westerns ever made.” ^FS Goldman’s “witty script” ^FS is “loosely based” ^FS on the real-life “charming, turn-of-the-century, train-robbing outlaws” ^FS and “early 1900’s anti-heroes” ^FS “Robert Leroy Parker (Butch Cassidy) and Harry Longbaugh (The Sundance Kid) and the Hole in the Wall gang.” ^FS

“One of the screen’s great buddy teams was born when Paul Newman and Robert Redford saddled up for this rollicking comic western about two legendary outlaws.” ^TV As the “two handsome leads,” ^FS they “redefined the buddy movie” ^A07 with their chemistry. “With a gleam in his baby blues, Newman dazzles as Butch, while Redford became a superstar with his self-deprecating portrayal of the dashing, trigger-happy Sundance.” ^TV

The story follows the “free-wheeling, non-chalant Butch (Newman) and sharpshooting Sundance (Redford)” ^FS from the Old West to “their final confrontation in South America.” ^VD After they “bungle their second attempt on the Union Pacific Express…[they] are relentlessly pursued by authorities in a posse. With Sundance’s beautiful, school-teacher lover Etta Place (Ross), they flee to Bolivia to seek further wealth. In the end, they are outnumbered and die in a blazing, hail of bullets, freeze-frame shootout, reminiscent of Bonnie and Clyde.” ^FS

“The movie’s key song ‘Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head’ is a fun counterpart to the actual plight of our friends.” ^A07 The song is featured during a light-hearted scene where Butch takes Etta on a bicycle ride.

Sources:

^A07 American Film Institute (2007). “AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies – 10th Anniversary Edition”
^FS Filmsite.org “100 Greatest Films”
^TV TV Guide (August 8-14, 1998 issue). “50 Greatest Movies on TV and Video”
^VD Video Detective (1997). “Top 100 Films of All Time”

Awards/Honors/Lists:

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Oscars:

Wins: 4 – Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Song (“Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head”), Best Original Score

Nominations: 7 – including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Sound

Other Awards:

Box Office:

Other Lists/Honors:

First posted 6/29/2020; last updated 5/31/2023.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

American Film Institute: 100 Greatest American Films of All Time

American Film Institute:

100 Greatest American Films of All Time

In 1998, the American Film Institute reached out to, as it says on their website, “more than 1,500 leaders from across the American film community – screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics among them – to choose from a list of 400 nominated films compiled by AFI and select the 100 greatest American movies.” The results were revealed on a CBS television special on June 16, 1998.

In 2007, AFI updated its list, repeating the original process and airing another CBS special on June 20, 2007.

The list presented here is an aggregate of the two lists. Here are the results:

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. The Godfather (1972)
3. Casablanca (1942)
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
7. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
8. Schindler’s List (1993)
9. The Graduate (1967)
10. On the Waterfront (1954)

11. Star Wars – Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
12. Raging Bull (1980)
13. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
14. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
15. Psycho (1960)
16. Some Like It Hot (1959)
17. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
18. Chinatown (1974)
19. All About Eve (1950)
20. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

21. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
22. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
24. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
25. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
26. Apocalypse Now (1979)
27. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
28. High Noon (1952)
29. The Godfather Part II (1974)
30. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

31. Annie Hall (1977)
32. Double Indemnity (1944)
33. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
34. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
35. Vertigo (1958)
36. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
37. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
38. It Happened One Night (1934)
39. The African Queen (1951)
40. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

41. King Kong (1933)
42. City Lights (1931)
43. Rear Window (1954)
44. West Side Story (1961)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
46. The Sound of Music (1965)
47. North by Northwest (1959)
48. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
49. Taxi Driver (1976)
50. Jaws (1975)

51. The Searchers (1956)
52. M*A*S*H (1970)
53. Shane (1953)
54. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
55. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
56. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
57. Network (1976)
58. Tootsie (1982)
59. The Deer Hunter (1978)
60. The Gold Rush (1925)

61. Rocky (1976)
62. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
63. American Graffiti (1973)
64. Duck Soup (1933)
65. Forrest Gump (1994)
66. Modern Times (1936)
67. The Wild Bunch (1969)
68. The French Connection (1971)
69. Unforgiven (1992)
70. Platoon (1986)

71. Ben-Hur (1959)
72. Easy Rider (1969)
73. The Apartment (1960)
74. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
75. Goodfellas (1990)
76. Pulp Fiction (1994)
77. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
78. The General (1927)
79. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
80. The Birth of a Nation (1915)

81. Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
82. From Here to Eternity (1953)
83. Amadeus (1984)
84. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
85. The Third Man (1949)
86. Fantasia (1940)
87. Nashville (1975)
88. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
89. Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
90. Stagecoach (1939)

91. Cabaret (1972)
92. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
93. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
94. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
95. An American in Paris (1951)
96. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
97. Wuthering Heights (1939)
98. Dances with Wolves (1990)
99. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
100. All the President’s Men (1976)

Resources:

Originally posted 6/20/2007.

Tuesday, June 16, 1998

American Film Institute’s “100 Years…100 Films”

Originally posted 6/16/1998.

From the website: “The very first edition of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies is a list of the 100 greatest American films of all time. In 1998, AFI invited more than 1,500 leaders from across the American film community – screenwriters, directors, actors, producers, cinematographers, editors, executives, film historians and critics among them – to choose from a list of 400 nominated films compiled by AFI and select the 100 greatest American movies. The AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies CBS television special originally aired on June 16, 1998.”

Here is the top 100 list:

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. The Godfather (1972)
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
7. The Graduate (1967)
8. On the Waterfront (1954)
9. Schindler’s List (1993)
10. Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

11. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
12. Sunset Blvd. (1950)
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
15. Star Wars (1977)
16. All About Eve (1950)
17. The African Queen (1951)
18. Psycho (1960)
19. Chinatown (1974)
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
23. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
24. Raging Bull (1980)
25. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
26. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
27. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

31. Annie Hall (1977)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
33. High Noon (1952)
34. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
35. It Happened One Night (1934)
36. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. Double Indemnity (1944)
39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
40. North by Northwest (1959)

41. West Side Story (1961)
42. Rear Window (1954)
43. King Kong (1933)
44. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
46. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
47. Taxi Driver (1976)
48. Jaws (1975)
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

51. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
52. From Here to Eternity (1953)
53. Amadeus (1984)
54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
55. The Sound of Music (1965)
56. M*A*S*H (1970)
57. The Third Man (1949)
58. Fantasia (1940)
59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

61. Vertigo (1958)
62. Tootsie (1982)
63. Stagecoach (1939)
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
65. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
66. Network (1976)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
68. An American in Paris (1951)
69. Shane (1953)
70. The French Connection (1971)

71. Forrest Gump (1994)
72. Ben-Hur (1959)
73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
74. The Gold Rush (1925)
75. Dances with Wolves (1990)
76. City Lights (1931)
77. American Graffiti (1973)
78. Rocky (1976)
79. The Deer Hunter (1978)
80. The Wild Bunch (1969)

81. Modern Times (1936)
82. Giant (1956)
83. Platoon (1986)
84. Fargo (1996)
85. Duck Soup (1933)
86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
87. Frankenstein (1931)
88. Easy Rider (1969)
89. Patton (1970)
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)

91. My Fair Lady (1964)
92. A Place in the Sun (1951)
93. The Apartment (1960)
94. Goodfellas (1990)
95. Pulp Fiction (1994)
96. The Searchers (1956)
97. Bringing Up Baby (1938)
98. Unforgiven (1992)
99. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Resources:

American Film Institute (6/16/1998). AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies (original version)
American Film Institute (6/20/2007). AFI’s 100 Greatest American Films of All Time (10th anniversary edition)